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Crown Prosecution Service figures show only 61 migrants have been charged and 51 convicted since December 2019 for illegally entering the country and breaching the 1971 Immigration Act.
Up to 50 people were supposed to board two boats ahead of the fatal voyage across Channel - but one vessel suffered engine trouble, those in camps in France claimed.
Baran Nouri Hamadamin, 24, was identified as one of 27 migrants who drowned after a flimsy boat capsized in the Channel six miles off Calais in France during stormy weather.
The EU s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier called on the French government to pull out of the treaty governing Anglo-French border relations as tensions between London and Paris boil over.